Ostara is the Wiccan/Witchcraft festival/celebration of Spring, a time of rebirth and to welcome the Goddess from her temporary stay in the Underworld. This is a time for the seeds of plants and a new life to begin to awaken, this is also an awakening of the Green Man and Corn Mother. In Old times people came together and danced at ancient sites, ritual fires were burned to encourage the Sun to warm the soil and awake the sleeping life beneath.
     Ostara is the Scandinavian Goddess of Spring and she symbolizes the rebirth of Nature. Ostara is also known as Eostre ( Ostre ) who was the Anglo-Saxon Goddess of Spring. In German text the word Ostara means an Eastern direction, thus the word Easter which is used for the Christian celebration of the resurrection of Christ. So Ostara was seen as the Goddess from the East and of the Dawn, still to this day celebrations include a Sunset ceremony. Eostre was worshipped as the Maiden aspect of the Tripple Goddess.
     It was the Pagan custom to exchange coloured eggs as symbols of renewal. Ostara's sacred animal is the Hare, the Hare being a Lunar animal and connected to rebirth, rejuvenation and resurrection. The Hare also symbolizes the Light into Darkness and is the Fertility symbol which represents the Female cycle.